Bummer! I was looking forward to soaring rhetoric not policy! But I guess since the independents want substance not style, Obama is forced to include policy in his speech:
"I'm not aiming for a lot of high rhetoric," he said of his upcoming speech. "I'm much more concerned with communicating how I intend to help middle-class families live their lives."Looks like it's going to be a dull speech, I hope it doesn't go long. It's bad enough that we have to sit through two windbags tonight :-)"People know that I can give the kind of speech that I gave four years ago," Obama continued. "That's not the question on voters' minds. I think they're much more interested in, what am I going to do to help them in their lives? And so, in that sense, this is going to be a more workmanlike speech."
BTW, I don't need Obama's help to live my life, I'm perfectly able to do that on my own. But if he really wants to help, he can give us a tax cut and to make Bush's tax cuts permanent so we keep the deduction for our kids. He can also open up more areas for drilling.
Update: Well, at least we'll have the Greek Temple to look at during the speech. Here's a video if you're interested in what it looks like.
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Rob's response pretty much exemplifies why this blog is so troubling to me. The posts here have little, if anything, to do with the Reformed tradition. Instead the only thing that this blog accomplishes is to reinforce the stereotype of which Rob's comments are an indication. If you look through the posts here, this should be clear: the political positions taken are never discussed in a theological context, much less a Reformed context. Rather, they are merely stated with the hope that the claim contained in the blog's subtitle sufficiently connects them to a Reformed perspective.
The core of the Reformed tradition is the sovereignty of God. On my reading, the only sovereign in these parts is the e-mails that the author receives from the McCain campaign.
I'm completely baffled why and how this blog got onto beliefnet.com. Though it is very possible to draw a conservative political perspective out of reformed theology (though any ideological allegiance is perhaps problematic in the end), this here is not it. If anyone can explain that to me, I would be eternally in their debt. Whoever made the editorial decision to do so should be embarrassed.
mark, thanks for the perspective. i found it very informative.
I'm completely baffled why and how this blog got onto beliefnet.com.
Mark, although I am not affiliated with Beliefnet, perhaps I'll take a crack at your challenge. I have similarly wondered and occassionally asked Michele why she bothers to post here. I come from her side, both politically and theologically. It frustrates me to read the repetitive insults, the allegations of inauthentic Christianity, the complaints of a non-Reformed political perspective when she fails to connect directly her political and religious beliefs, and criticism for being a judgemental right-wing-fundamentalist when she does.
But the answer is, from my perspective, that Beliefnet believes in having some competing principled conservatives to give their more thoughful readers pause to consider their own positions. This does not mean they agree with her; they merely understand that principle of iron sharpening iron. If you do not wish to read opinions that disagree with your own, do not frequent her blog. If you wish to see the other side, than read it.
And, by the way; consistant coherant ideological statements are not necessarily talking points from party leaders. They may be closely held opinions, too. However, for true talking points...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_camp_blasts_National_Review_writer_as_slimy_character_assassin.html?showall
irony, dale. oh, and hint of hypocrisy. it doesn't help michele's case (or yours in defending her) when she uses sources like hotair. and while said opinions are very consistent and s usually coherent, they are more often than not contrary to the truth and lacking of facts.
CHARACTER COMPARISONS ...
Lofty speeches are great ... but actons
speak louder than words !!!
In addition to 20+ more years of service and
experience in the U.S. senate than the other
candidate ...
One candidate, John McCain watched his fellow
prisoner's backs, at great cost to himself. After
3 years as a tortured P.O.W. in Vietnam, he was
offered early release by the enemy. But, since it
would have been dishonorable to get released
before his fellow prisoners, he refused, which
resulted in 2 1/2 additional years of torture and
captivity.
The other candidate, Barack Obama threw his
self proclaimed friend, spiritual advisor, and mentor
of 20 years, under the bus for political expediency and gain.
To vote for Obama, after learning these differences ...
will say as much about your character, as it does about
the character of the two candidates.
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